“House of Tomorrow,” which was partly filmed in Minnesota in 2016, opens Friday at the Lagoon Theater in Minneapolis.

Starring Ellen Burstyn and featuring Nick Offerman and Asa Butterfield, the movie is based on a novel by Macalester grad/English professor Peter Bognanni.

Nick Offerman is in “The House of Tomorrow.”

A coming-of-age drama about a kid, his grandmother, his new pal and the relationships all of them have with theorist R. Buckminster Fuller and with punk music, “Tomorrow” is set in and around North Branch. A cluster of geodesic dome houses — a style of home popularized by Fuller — in North Branch was crucial to the filming in Minnesota.

Kathy has been an arts journalist for almost 25 years. Her career goal is to interview all four Monkees, and she's three-fourths of the way there. (Yes, she did talk to Davy Jones and Peter Tork before they died.) She loves Twin Cities theater and is a huge fan of the St. Paul Winter Carnival and the Minnesota State Fair.

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